[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 192 (Wednesday, October 4, 1995)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 51927]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-24655]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 300
[FRL-5311-6]
National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan;
National Priorities List Update
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.
ACTION: Notice of deletion of the Stewco, Incorporated Superfund Site
(Site) from the National Priorities List.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces the
deletion of the Site in Waskom, Texas, from the National Priorities
List (NPL). The NPL is Appendix B of 40 CFR Part 300 which is the
National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan (NCP),
which EPA promulgated pursuant to Section 105 of the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as
amended (CERCLA). EPA and the State of Texas have determined that all
appropriate Fund-financed responses under CERCLA have been implemented
and that no further cleanup by responsible parties is appropriate.
Moreover, EPA and the State of Texas have determined that remedial
actions conducted at the Site to date have been protective of public
health, welfare, and the environment.
EFFECTIVE DATE: October 4, 1995.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ernest R. Franke, Remedial Project
Manager, US EPA, Region 6, 1445 Ross Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75202-2733,
(214) 665-8521.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Site to be deleted from the NPL is the
``STEWCO Superfund Site,'' Waskom, Texas. A Notice of Intent to Delete
for this Site was published on July 27, 1995, (60 FR 422). The closing
date for public comment was August 25, 1995. EPA received no comments
during the comment period.
EPA identifies sites which appear to present a significant risk to
public health, welfare, or the environment and maintains the NPL as a
list of the most serious of those sites. Sites on the NPL may be the
subject of remedial response actions financed using the Hazardous
Substance Response Trust Fund (Fund). Any site deleted from the NPL
remains eligible for Fund-financed remedial actions in the unlikely
event that conditions at the site warrant such action. Section
300.425(e)(3) of the NCP, provides that in the event of a significant
release from a site deleted from the NPL, the site shall be restored to
the NPL without application of the Hazard Ranking System. Deletion of a
site from the NPL does not affect responsible party liability or impede
agency efforts to recover costs associated with response actions.
List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 30
Environmental protection, Hazardous waste.
Dated: July 25, 1995.
Dated: September 20, 1995.
A. Stanley Meiburg,
Acting Regional Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency, Region
6.
For the reasons setout in the preamble, 40 CFR part 300 is amended
as follows:
PART 300--[AMENDED]
1. The authority citation for part 300 continues to read as
follows:
Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1321(d); 42 U.S.C. 9601-9657; E.O. 12777,
56 FR 54757, 3 CFR, 1991 Comp., p. 351; E.O. 12580; 52 FR 2923, 3
CFR, 1987 Comp., p. 193.
Appendix B--[Amended]
2. Table 1 of Appendix B to part 300 is amended by removing STEWCO
Superfund Site, Waskom, Texas.
[FR Doc. 95-24655 Filed 10-3-95; 8:45 am]
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